Officially Retired
04-10-2013, 02:31 PM
Against my better judgement, I posted on "that other board" to a comment some clown made about what it takes to be "a real breeder" :lol:
This person felt that "being honest" made someone a real breeder. Well, if that were true, then I guess Carver and Patrick weren't real breeders :lol:
Yet this begs the question as to what, really, constitutes a real breeder? IMO, a person has to do a lot more than "be straight with you" to be considered one, for there are a lot of honest people selling dogs who (1) have never bred a winner and (2) probably never will. Yet are they "real breeders," just because they're trying to breed good pit bulls and being honest about it? IMO, not by a longshot. (And, hell, even breeding some winners doesn't make a person a true breeder IMO.)
The truth is, 99.9999999999999999999999999% of the people making breedings today (and, hell, yesterday) are/were the furthest thing from being "a real breeder" that there is.
In my opinion, a real breeder is someone who linebreeds on some standard ... who identified a particular dog (or dogs) as "unique" because they had SOMETHING most other dogs do not have ... and that breeder made it his business to genetically isolate whatever performance standard it was that he felt made these dogs unique ... so that this/these traits could be replicated with consistency when breedings are made ... and thus that breeder set a new standard.
The truth is, when MOST pit bulls get bred, no one has any idea WTF is going to come out of it, performance-wise, other than he will produce "more pit bulls"
The true breeders are those who have created their own strain within the breed ... that will reliably and consistently produce key traits that people need ... that you just can't get reliably by breeding any old two pit bulls together.
All the great old breeders created their own strain that had a certain "stamp" on it, where people would go to these breeder to get that trait (or those traits) they needed ... because that true breeder had created a linebred family that could be depended on to produce it :idea:
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This person felt that "being honest" made someone a real breeder. Well, if that were true, then I guess Carver and Patrick weren't real breeders :lol:
Yet this begs the question as to what, really, constitutes a real breeder? IMO, a person has to do a lot more than "be straight with you" to be considered one, for there are a lot of honest people selling dogs who (1) have never bred a winner and (2) probably never will. Yet are they "real breeders," just because they're trying to breed good pit bulls and being honest about it? IMO, not by a longshot. (And, hell, even breeding some winners doesn't make a person a true breeder IMO.)
The truth is, 99.9999999999999999999999999% of the people making breedings today (and, hell, yesterday) are/were the furthest thing from being "a real breeder" that there is.
In my opinion, a real breeder is someone who linebreeds on some standard ... who identified a particular dog (or dogs) as "unique" because they had SOMETHING most other dogs do not have ... and that breeder made it his business to genetically isolate whatever performance standard it was that he felt made these dogs unique ... so that this/these traits could be replicated with consistency when breedings are made ... and thus that breeder set a new standard.
The truth is, when MOST pit bulls get bred, no one has any idea WTF is going to come out of it, performance-wise, other than he will produce "more pit bulls"
The true breeders are those who have created their own strain within the breed ... that will reliably and consistently produce key traits that people need ... that you just can't get reliably by breeding any old two pit bulls together.
All the great old breeders created their own strain that had a certain "stamp" on it, where people would go to these breeder to get that trait (or those traits) they needed ... because that true breeder had created a linebred family that could be depended on to produce it :idea:
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